A Ledger Home Run Primer

"A man never gets anywhere if facts and his ledgers don’t square."

What is a Ledger home run?

A Ledger home run is recorded when a player hits his first home run against a given opponent. These home runs are the engine of the v30 Club. We’re not nearly as concerned with your second, third, or thirtieth home run against an opponent. All you need is one. It’s called a Ledger home run because each is recorded in the v30 Club Ledger which lists every first home run hit by a player vs an opponent. At the start of the 2024 season, it contains 65,715 home runs recorded between 1901 and 2023.

Why a Ledger Additions post?

Ledger home runs are added nearly every single day during the season. The Additions post serves as a digest of all Ledger home runs hit the previous day.

The format of these posts will be a list with entries shown as:

Mookie Betts (Dodgers) vs. the Padres, 4th/15th, 22 PA

Which is interpreted as Mookie Betts, playing for the Dodgers, hit his first home run against the Padres. This was his fourth Ledger home run of the season and the fifteenth in his career. Prior to this game he had 22 plate appearances against the Padres. Things get more exciting as the former number approaches 18 (the Pete Alonso Score) and the latter approaches 30 (you ticket into the v30 Club).